I have just successfully installed Drutex on a shared server. As it turned out, for whatever reason my host does not support dvipng, but they do support ImageMagick. However, the convert binary does not accept a dvi input, and so a third program is required to run after latex and before convert. Luckily the binary dvips is included with the texlive package my host installed, making this not a very big hurdle. After creating the custom commands for Drutex the latex finally rendered correctly.

Hello,
I'm relatively new to Drupal which I installed with ease. Now I'm trying to render mathematics within my pages, so I installed DruteX. My server can't handle latex requests since I can't install software onto it (except all kind of php of course).
I can access a math server, which transforms gracefully math formulae into images, e.g.
http://math.spip.org/txt.php?\int_0^1x^2dx
gives the expected result (a PNG image, of course).

Hi, just posted a tiny module which "works for me" - it's not pretty and its not cleaver, but it might be helpful to others who use latex. It simply allows you to put some latex code, with embedded php code within it, onto a content type - and then gives you the ability to download the resulting PDF. The module itself is the trivial part - getting your php code and latex to work just the way you want it - thats the real problem. I'd guess most people would hack the module about a bit too... Anyway, it maybe helpful to some people.

I just got my own local copy of drutex working for drupal 5.0 (I still need to get an install of latex for my server; its a hosted server - I'm looking into server farms, but haven't been able to find anything reasonable yet)

I just installed drupal for the first time, so this was sort of a get oriented with the system project. I expected it to take a long time.... it took 5 minutes! (granted, I still have to install latex on my server - but it appears drutex is working fine)

A friend and I are starting a Drupal for mathematicians (who know LaTeX, but little else). Anyway, I am wondering if there is a good reason why Drutex uses <equations>...</equations> instead of just supporting the \begin{eqnarray}...\end{eqnarray} environment from LaTeX. At least for my target audience, the latter would be preferable. Thanks in advance for any comments/advice.

1) Download the DruTeX module from the Drupal website and unpack it to the modules directory. You now have a directory modules/drutex.

2) Go to the module admin section and enable "drutex".

3) Go to the input-filters admin section and create a new input format. You can choose an arbitrary name, but "DruTeX" would make sense. When you create a new format, you can select an input filter from a list: Just choose DruTeX.

4) Go again to the input-filters admin section, and select "configure" for the newly added input format. Click on the "configure" tab, and you are able to adjust many settings of DruTeX.

Keeping this short is tough (and off to a bad start ;) - at home (South Africa) there is huge social disparity which is perpetuated by only the well-off having access to resources that could potentially break the cycle. We are focused on education. Many students in poorer schools (>50%) do not even have sufficient textbooks. Enter our project - a note: without publishers', editors' and authors' royalties a hard cover 250 page books costs less than ZAR20 (<$2.5) to print:

Hi! I'd like to start contributing to drutex. I've installed it on my server and guess what? It didn't work. So I'm asking myself: Why doesn't it work? I've added a couple of useful debugging features to my own drutex_render.inc, one which is related to an issue posted a while ago, stating that the message TeX Embedding failed! was not enough (http://drupal.org/node/71218). The other one was trying to access the latex error log. Both were quite simple.

In items 4.2 and 4.3 of our technical specification, we talked about links between \ref{equation-id} and <equation id="equation-id"></equation>. What plans do we have to include this functionality in DruTeX?

I've created a hack for converting Drutex from using LateX to render the pictures to using Mimetex.cgi to render them. The image quality isn't quite as good, but it works. The hack is currently in the really ugly stage where a lot of the Drutex stuff probably doesn't work (like multi-line equations), but I will test this stuff out, and see if I can modify the code to support this. I'm a real beginner in PhP so I'm not able to answer any fancy questions about it. Also, please note that you will want to change the URL to the Mimetex.cgi, and that Mimetex.cgi needs to be installed into the CGI-BIN directory of your webhost.